Sin is an affront to God!

Sin Affronts God
Psalm 51:12

Sin is a terrible affront to God who loves us in unbelievable love. it is an affront to His Righteousness; His Sovereignty; His Forgiveness; His Mercy; and His Grace. Sin affronts God's Righteousness because He cannot allow sin in His presence. It affronts His Sovereignty for He is man's creator, and sin stands on its hide legs and shakes a fist into His face and says, "I take charge of my on life. I'll do what I please." Sin affronts God's Forgiveness, because when He saved us, our sins were cast away from us to be remembered no more by His forgiveness. When we sin, we are dragging old, rotten, putrid flesh back into His Holy presence and to the God of forgiveness, He doesn't remember them, and cannot allow it, and turns His face from us and will not hear us until we come in humble repentance seeking His forgiveness once again. And, sin affronts our Lord's mercy and grace, because He had poured His life out for us undeserving and incapable creatures to do anything on our behalf to stand in His presence to start with.

David, God's Beloved, had sinned against Him. The one who was "after My (God's) own heart" (Acts 13:22). Whether God was saying David sought the Lord with all His heart, or that the heart of God was upon David, is not the issue. The issue is that David sinned. David, I believe, in a premeditative way, lusted after Bathsheba, committed adultery with her and murdered her husband had been seduced by his power and flesh to turn his back upon his Lord and sinned. How could he ever be welcomed back into the God's Holy presence.

That is what this Psalm is all about. Nathan the prophet had been used by God to point out David's hideous actions of sin and begin the road for his repentance and confession, and God's gracious restoration. That's why David in verse 12 cried out to God; "Restore to me the joy of Thy Salvation." This phrase implies several things to me:

I. Salvation is Full of Joy

II. Sin Destroys Ones Joy

III. Savior is the Source of Joy

IV. Serving the Savior Brings Joy - v. 13-14

Concl. Why would God save us?
1. That we might be in the right relationship to Him.
2. That we might live in grateful obedience to Him.
3. So Jesus can be "Your get out of hell free card." NOT!!!